I have noticed that for the past few days , the IETF has been flooded with
these so called "OUT OF OFFICE AUTOREPLY"......debate.
But don't you ppl in IETF think that these mails are a way to intimidate the
sender that the person to whom you are sending the mail is out of office or
something......why do we make every small thing such a big issue?
can we not use this medium(IETF) for someting better?
I personally would like to receive some kind of ACK from the person whom I
am trying to send a mail....so that I am rest assured that the mail has
reached him....I agree that in case a mail does not reach the concerned ID
we do get a mailer-deamon normally...yet i prefer this interaction/....
SO LETS STOP THIS DISCUSSION RIGHT HERE...AND USE THE IETF FOR SOMETHING
BETTER
Ashutosh Agarwal
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> From: Theodore Tso[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 06:20 PM
> To: Gene Gaines
> Cc: David Lemson; Keith Moore; ietf
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:08:20AM -0400, Gene Gaines wrote:
> > Why in god's name would any email program worth 2 cents
> > not have this feature?
>
> That's easy; for a long time (although this seems to be less true
> today), Microsoft apparently had a strong bias of trying very hard to
> hire the best and the brightest --- of people fresh out of college.
> Heaven forfend that they actually hire people with industry
> experience.
>
> As a result, a lot of things which most people would consider common
> sense and common practice don't actually happen until after the first
> couple of versions of the program are released and people scream
> bloody murder. (After all, good vacation hueristics have been around
> for well over a decade.)
>
> However, when MS Exchange finally has this feature, no doubt their
> marketing folks will trumpet how they "invented" it. After all, this
> is the sort of thing which is why they claim they need the "freedom to
> innovate".
>
> - Ted
>
